Critical Review on Enterprise Architecture Research Articles
Table of Contents Critical review on Enterprise Architecture research articles 2 Introduction 2 Conclusion 8 References 9
Critical review on Enterprise Architecture research articles
Introduction
Enterprise Architecture is a term that broadly describes each of the major components and relations constituting the firm (Harmon, P. (2003). Information technology’s strategic responsibility and its importance all through the firm enhance the complication whereas meanwhile it also increases the demand of dealing with additional contradictory needs. Issues pertaining to architecture are becoming increasingly crucial to create a booming organisation. Thus, apparent risks that significant resources will be invested in absence of desirable impacts may occur in cases of mishandling of such problems in a firm (Sauer et al. 2003). Enhanced IT management is considered as an important element for some time (Brancheau et al. 1987, Niederman et al. 1991, Gottschalk 2000). The idea of Architecture was established into IT Management study at least three decades ago. Information Systems Architecture or Information Architecture was mainly focused during that time (Zachman 1978, Bowman et al 1983, Zachman 1987, van der Poel et al. 1989).However, the recent studies has given attention on the way to link Information Systems Architecture and Business Architecture. Hence, due to the resulting study, increased number of broad ranging architectural frameworks has come out. Such frameworks are generally stated as “Enterprise Architecture Frameworks” (Spewak 1992, Williams et al. 1998, Rohloff 2005). Further, Enterprise architecture plays a role of a coordination tool to manage information security in a business network of machinery maintenance services business (Pulkkinen et al., 2007).Thus, the purpose of this assignment is to critically evaluate two papers in context to enterprise architecture.
This review first discusses Bartenschlager & Goeken’s (2010) article
Critical review on Enterprise Architecture research articles
Introduction
Enterprise Architecture is a term that broadly describes each of the major components and relations constituting the firm (Harmon, P. (2003). Information technology’s strategic responsibility and its importance all through the firm enhance the complication whereas meanwhile it also increases the demand of dealing with additional contradictory needs. Issues pertaining to architecture are becoming increasingly crucial to create a booming organisation. Thus, apparent risks that significant resources will be invested in absence of desirable impacts may occur in cases of mishandling of such problems in a firm (Sauer et al. 2003). Enhanced IT management is considered as an important element for some time (Brancheau et al. 1987, Niederman et al. 1991, Gottschalk 2000). The idea of Architecture was established into IT Management study at least three decades ago. Information Systems Architecture or Information Architecture was mainly focused during that time (Zachman 1978, Bowman et al 1983, Zachman 1987, van der Poel et al. 1989).However, the recent studies has given attention on the way to link Information Systems Architecture and Business Architecture. Hence, due to the resulting study, increased number of broad ranging architectural frameworks has come out. Such frameworks are generally stated as “Enterprise Architecture Frameworks” (Spewak 1992, Williams et al. 1998, Rohloff 2005). Further, Enterprise architecture plays a role of a coordination tool to manage information security in a business network of machinery maintenance services business (Pulkkinen et al., 2007).Thus, the purpose of this assignment is to critically evaluate two papers in context to enterprise architecture.
This review first discusses Bartenschlager & Goeken’s (2010) article
References: van der Poel, P. and R. van Waes (1989). Framework for Architectures in Information Planning. I E. Falkenberg och P. Lindgreen, red. Information Systems Concept: An In-depth Analysis, Elsevier Science Publishers B.V. (North Holland). Williams, T. J. and H. Li (1998) Pera and Geram – Enterprise Reference Architectures in Enterprise Integration. In Information Infrastructure Systems for Manufacturing II, J. Mills and F. Kimura (eds.). IFIP, Published by Kluwer Academic Publishers. Zachman, J. A. (1978). The Information Systems Management System: A Framework for Planning. DATA BASE, Winter. Zachman J. A. (1987). A framework for information systems architecture, IBM Systems Journal Vol. 26, Issue 3 1987 Pages: 276 – 292.